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| | | | | Learning the beautiful game in Guangzhou, China. (Kevin Frayer) | | | | | | | “Isn’t sport more or less an antidote to dying?”
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| rantnrave:// PRESIDENT OBAMA made a safe, middle-of-the-road pick on WEDNESDAY that's unlikely to survive the next few weeks intact. Yup, the KANSAS JAYHAWKS, who the president has now picked three times in his NCAA bracket during the course of his presidency. And who have yet to win a title during that time. "BILL SELF owes me," the prez said. The JAYHAWKS' last title came in 2008, the year before OBAMA took office. He might be the one who owes them...Also, for all his basketball fandom, OBAMA's bracket game isn't so hot... Fifty players you need to know to be a MARCH MADNESS expert... DUKE and UNC WILMINGTON launch the tournament at 12:15 pm ET today in PROVIDENCE. KANSAS faces AUSTIN PEAY at 4 pm ET in the politically key city of DES MOINES... MASHABLE's SAM LAIRD pauses to note the particularly dark shadows hanging over this year's tournament... Given the choice between bigger nets and smaller pads for goalies, the scoring-starved NHL has gone for the latter. Which gives us a chance to revisit our REDEF SportsSET "DOES THE NHL NEED BIGGER NETS?"... We love oral histories here at REDEF almost as much as we love movies, and we love movies even if they are "MAJOR LEAGUE." Check out our newest REDEF MediaSET: "It's in the Hole: Oral Histories of Sports Movies We Love"... Speaking of sports movies: RICHARD LINKLATER and crew talk "EVERYBODY WANTS SOME" at SXSW... REDEF is looking for freelance sports curators. CVs to jobs@redefgroup.com. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Guangzhou, China-- Rising from the early morning mist like a Disney castle sits the imposing face of what President Xi Jinping hopes is the future of Chinese football. Evergrande Football School is front and center in the push to bring footballing glory to a nation currently languishing in the lower echelons of the sport. | | |
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| Efficiency is a battle waged against time. The runner's only enemy is time, and his only tactic against time is perpetual onward movement. The legendary nineteenth-century pedestrian, Mensen Ernst, who reportedly ran 5,000 miles from Constantinople to Calcutta (and back) offered: "To move is to live, to stand still is to die." | | |
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| Recent brain research appears to suggest CTE is prevalent among people who played any contact sport, not just former NFL players, whose diagnoses with CTE often dominate headlines. | | |
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| For the most part, black male athletes are gerbils on the wheels of the college sports industrial complex that generates tens of millions dollars for individual schools from coast to coast. They are laborers who help line the pockets of the five major conference commissioners. | | |
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| BRADENTON, Fla. -- With a former club, during a spring training not long ago, Cole Figueroa stood behind the cage while one of the more prominent players in the organization took batting practice. | | |
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| "It's not relaxed play-when-you-feel-like-it. I would play 10-12 hours a day 7 days a week and take very few breaks." | | |
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| Hafu Chan is a legend. For the past eight years, she's been a star in one of the most popular sports in the world: competitive video gaming, known as eSports. And she's done it while facing an incredible amount of sexism and hostility from others in the male-dominated eSports world. | | |
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| In a college sports landscape that features a football-driven financial aristocracy, a disparity in money may be deepening an imbalance in competition. | | |
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| On Wednesday (Mar. 16) FIFA announced they were seeking "tens of millions of dollars" in restitution from the named co-conspirators indicted as part of the the Department of Justice investigation into FIFA, CONMEBOL and CONCACAF. We asked ESPN FC's Gab Marcotti to tell how exactly FIFA can get money back from itself and its member confederations. | | |
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| Cushy endorsement deals and gangland executions are all part of the Russian sporting scene. | | |
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| Lindsay and Anne Clemons drive their red Toyota RAV4 into Harvard Stadium, and men in orange vests direct them, in twists and turns, to the rear of the crowded parking lot. They are closer to the high school lacrosse games unfolding on the fields in the distance than they are to the stadium, but Lindsay and Anne are not there for that. | | |
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| Forget Deflategate--Goodell’s job was never about football. It was all about the money. | | |
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| On the 394-acre Nike campus in Beaverton, Ore., amid the six-acre Lake Nike and the beach volleyball court and the two main gyms and the hair salon, is the Nike Sport Research Lab. Signs at the entrance read: "You are in a Nike innovation space and we have some rules: No photography, no social media, escort all visitors, report suspicious activity." | | |
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| All sports teams have passionate fans. Soccer supporters are different. They're organized. They're next level. Going to hangars to create tifo displays. Fundraising for a fellow member who is down on his/her luck. You'll hear about relationships and community. You hear the word family. A home away from home. | | |
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| NBATV may be, in fact, televised, but it's not exactly like television, is it? | | |
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| Is this what the future of football looks like? | | |
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| The book on MMA’s biggest star isn’t closed, but for those climbing aboard their high horses, there remains a need to read it from cover to cover. | | |
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| Chris Davenport, 45, is driving back to his hometown of Aspen after guiding newbies around Silverton, Colorado. Rather than chill and enjoy the ride and brief time away from clients, in the passenger seat he posts an update on the trip to his Instagram and FaceBook accounts. | | |
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| Tyler Dunnington wants to get back into baseball after spending one season in the Minor Leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals. He quit in 2015 after hearing a coach and teammates talk about killing gay people. | | |
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| The NCAA finally brings its shiny showpiece to Brooklyn Friday afternoon, a partnership that should have been consummated years ago because few places have ever given more to the cause of basketball than the Borough of Churches. | | |
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